As some many women basketball players like Lisa Leslie, Tina Thompson and Cynthia Cooper became the best players for years; Candace Parker is the light in this generation. Her skills and amazing heart for the game is projected in the court. She just loves the game and enjoys every minute of it.
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The new face of basketball has the potential to be Miller, Leslie and Cooper in one; she just has the skills to shoot, post and dunk the ball, whenever she wants. With only 22 years of age, this super woman has pulled off so many accomplishments as few have done. During this year she has achieved the NCAA title, being the No.1 draft in the WNBA, graduating with a degree in sports management; and just now, playing with the USA Team in the Olympics.
Looks like during her basketball career, Candace Parker, has done it almost all. When she was only 17 years old, Parker won the Slam Dunk contest of the McDonald's High School All-American Game, by beating five male participants in the contest; event that turned her into the first woman to do so. During her college career, Parker led the Tennessee Lady Val's to two NCAA titles. She was also named twice Most Outstanding Player of the Year, accomplishment only done by Miller, Holdsclaw and Taurasi. Moreover, Parker is also known as the first female to dunk in a 해외배팅 NCAA tournament game and the second female after Lisa Leslie to dunk in a WNBA game.
According to some details given by someone close to Candace, she's getting a huge income through advertising, even bigger than most of the NBA players; and no wonder why, if she already has contracts with Adidas and Gatorade. Currently, Candace plays for the Sparks and if she decides to play overseas in the offseason, she may gain more money than any woman basketball player ever.
In the Olympics, Parker has done pretty amazing things helping the team reach their third win, and a 28-0 record internationally (since 1992). The team expects to win the next game and keep their record as further as they can, to eventually obtain the gold medal. Obviously, Parker hopes for her the triumph and the first Olympic gold medal in her career.
Parker said that being in the Olympics is something she always looked forward to do, and talked about how pleased and proud she feels being there representing the USA. "This is my first Olympics and I hope to come back numerous times" affirmed the American.
The WNBA and USA National Team former player, Dawn Staley, expressed herself about Parker and this is part of what she said "She has converted her game into something special. To see Candace grow and to see Candace do what she does is an incredible thing around the world. But things are better and out future incredible when you have someone like Candace who does what she does with her still needing to grow."
For sure Candace Parker will show us a lot of her potential in years to come, but she still has a long way to go, with a lot to learn and experience to gain.
The cricket is a sport of unknown origin that is played in an outdoor stadium between two teams of eleven players each, using a bat and ball that is slightly smaller than the ball of the baseball game. The rules that govern this game were drafted in London, Great Britain, by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1788. From then onwards, the rules have been subject of subsequent updates.
Cricket is played in Annual International Series, although there are also games between colleges and universities teams, including the traditional games held in Cambridge and Oxford every year.
It is believed that Cricket is a name coming from the English word Crick, which meaning is "stick" or "stick pastor". This reference could be associated to the first bats that were used to play in the 18th century. However, the first cricket match ever recorded, as we know the game today was held in Melbourne, Australia, in a test match between England and Australia during 1877.
In the United States, the first cricket game was held between this country and Canada in 1844 and took place in the grounds of the St George's Cricket Club in New York. However, it was not until 1859 when the first team of English professional cricket players visited America for the first overseas tour before embarking in their first Australian tour in 1862.
Incidentally the first cricket team that toured England in 1868 was a team of Australian Aborigines and their visit achieved huge success that later would be the leading force to bring South Africa as the third Test nation after England and Australia in 1889.
The cricket bat is currently paddle-shaped, but flat and made of wooden willow. A cricket bat measures 96 cm long and 10.8 cm wide, having a handle of cane. As per the cricket regulations, the dimensions of the playing field can range from 133 by 152 m or 160 by 168 m. The cricket ball weighs between 156 and 163 g and is made of twine rope coiled around a core of cork and covered with leather.
Cricket is actually considered the national sport of England. When it comes to cricket records, the launcher Kapil Dev from India, downed 434 wickets in his 24 years of racing, the highest cricket score ever, although the Australian Allan Border made 11,174 runs between 1978 and 1992.
Actually, the only Cricket team that has won the Cricket World Cup twice is the West Indies Cricket team, who won the championship in 1975 and 1979. Although cricket is mostly popular in Europe, the majority of the Commonwealth of Nations has professional cricket teams.